One of my favourite quotes to bring up whenever someone is cooking
I am very popular in the kitchen
I am guilty of reinventing the wheel on almost every project. It brings immense control but doubles the workload. I do this because I have trust issues, but at least in the end I have “homemade everything”
I’d be curious to hear of a time when it paid off and one when it didn’t it. And about the kind of stuff you do.
I’m rather preparing to reinvent the wheel a little bit, as a technical person albeit one who does not code.
It’s practice and it makes you better!
it does !!
As long as you don’t insist on using them even after it became clear that the off the shelf version is better in ever way and you’ll never have enough time to reach its quality level.
pretty much 😂
I feel like doubling the workload is better than quadrupling the size of the project inheriting a bevy of features and tools you likely won’t touch at all. Sure it’s stripped out later (ideally), but I like less bloat and that includes during dev when I might have to dig through 3rd party code with its own conventions and standards packed into a ‘source available’ library with potentially dogshit or absent documentation.
Also yes, it’s good practice
I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds…
Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can’t grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!
How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.
(Seriously, it’s a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)
“In case I want to watch them and they’re not on any of my streaming services” /s
Can I have one where using their brains doesn’t cause humans discomfort?
